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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe ask of King?
(a) To help the chaplain.
(b) A light for his cigarette.
(c) To befriend another enlisted man.
(d) To help the doctor.

2. On what does Grey splurge?
(a) A second cigarette for the day.
(b) A night with one of the geisha girls.
(c) A night sneaking out of the camp.
(d) A half cup of milk.

3. Who is Lt. Grey summoning?
(a) The King.
(b) The cook.
(c) The burser.
(d) The laundress.

4. What is essential to the rat project?
(a) That it be kept a secret.
(b) The permission of the officers.
(c) The tacit permission of the Korean guards.
(d) To have enough space.

5. What does Dr. Prudhomme announce?
(a) Another run-in with the Japanese doctor.
(b) Two upcoming appendectomies.
(c) Four more deaths.
(d) Two upcoming amputations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maj. Barry asking King to sell?

2. Who is Peter Marlowe?

3. What does Grey see the King do?

4. What does Larkin tell Grey to do?

5. What surprises King about Marlowe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marlowe run for his water bottle?

2. How does Marlowe astound the King?

3. What are Max, Tex and Marlowe doing at the opening of Chapter 9 and why?

4. What secret does the King leak to the Australians and how does Marlowe react to the news?

5. Describe The King.

6. What do the King, Marlowe and Max talk about concerning the rat project?

7. Why is Lt. Grey happy at the beginning of Chapter 6?

8. Why does Lt. Grey arrest two of Larkin's men and what is Larkin's response?

9. What message does Grey get and how does he respond?

10. Describe Col. Kennedy's reactions to Steven.

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